As handy as my stream deck set up is right now, what would be even more handy is a Pop-over that can select what I put in there.
I love the Pop-Overs in Dorico, and would love to select specific objects as easily as I can do other things with them.
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You mean the Select More feature without initially selecting an item? Or the Filter function without having already selected a passage?
Sorry, I mean filter, having already selected a passage.
This is a really interesting idea. I’m surprised no one (that I’ve read anyway) has proposed this sooner.
+1
Nice idea. Following.
if you do this, perhaps add keep(+)/remove(-) operators ?
ie,
select +(forward from cursor) …# up|dn|backwards etc… skip if selection already active, +/- relative to current selection
filter +(upper voice)
filter -(quarter notes)
filter +(slurs)
could add booleans { +((upper voice) || (lower voice)) } but perhaps that’s going too far.
I’m not sure how much this filter popover would actually help. We already have the filter command in the contextual pop-up menu (which I just realized - I wish I had known this earlier!). It seems just as fast, at least on my laptop, to invoke the pop-up menu as it would be to invoke a popover.
Also, on Mac, if you type the first letter of an item in the contextual menu, it’s immediately selected. So in some ways this seems actually faster than a popover; and you don’t have to remember what to type, once you are in the popover.
I would disagree with you. I think some elements of the Context Menu could be further broken down into a pop-over, e.g. “note c##” (for C double sharp or something) or simply writing “trill” into a pop-over and thereby selecting all trills (and not other elements), etc.
Oh, Yes
So I could finally have all those filter-options back, my former music-app had. And what a smooth way to handle the filtering, without learning any shortcuts. Thumbs up here!
or simply writing “trill” into a pop-over and thereby selecting all trills (and not other elements), etc
I just tried this:
- Invoke contextual menu, after making a selection
- Type F for filter
- Type O for Ornaments and Trills
- Arrow down to get past “octave lines”
I’m not sure how much slower this is than invoking a popover and typing Trill. But, it’s always good to have more than one way of doing something. It doesn’t seem urgent to me, though; more like something that would be nice to have. Just my 2 cents!
This is an amazing idea and I hope they implement it! +1!
Once you invoke this “filter” popover, you could type e.g. “dyn” for all dynamics, “grad dyn” for gradual dynamics, etc. This would be a really smart time saver.